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DON'T ASK ME

Are you saying I've got to sit here and watch all your lights turn cold? Pack my bag of good intentions in the boot of growing old? Are you saying my hand can't hold back this tsunami rolling in? The only power at my disposal is choose which way to swim?

I'm sure I knew it on the day I was born, but time has misted up my memory! All I know is that I know nothing, so don't ask me.

I've been late to learn a lesson: some things are best left unsaid, but love has polished the connection between my big mouth and my head.

I'm sure I knew it on the day I was born, but time has misted up my memory! All I know is that I know nothing, so don't ask me.

I've got trouble enough keeping my own nose clean! Each day's a twisting path with dangers I can't foresee. I'd better mind my own affairs, trust those I love to mind theirs; I'm going to shut my eyes and count to one-two-three...

So I'll watch the wave approaching, rising deadly up the sands, and I'll smile in all the right places, and sit upon my hands.

I'm sure I knew it on the day I was born, but time has misted up my memory! All I know is that I know nothing, so don't ask me.

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from Leaves from the Family Tree, released May 28, 2012

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Wild Sound Recordings Cambridge, UK

Record label which distributes and licenses songs and instrumental tracks of acoustic folk roots artists. Founded in 2012 by Polly Paulusma after leaving One Little Independent Records, it now works with other artists. “Wild sound”, aka “wild track”, is the recording a sound engineer makes of air moving in an environment to be used in a mix. It captures the sound a place makes just by being. ... more

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